14 Jun
2006
14 Jun
'06
5:25 a.m.
On Wednesday 14 June 2006 12:24 am, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 6/13/2006 at 8:22 PM Roy J. Tellason wrote:
Yes indeed, I've built a few things like that. Very short hunks of dowel at
the corners for "feet" so that screw heads wouldn't be dragging, and
fahnstock (sp?) clips for the connections "off-board". :-)
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That was the way I learned how to build things as
well, only we started
with a hunk of blank sheet metal and ended up with a 5-tube radio. :-)
In my case, it was a piece of 3/4" thick pine board. If you didn't have
surface-mount sockets, you mounted the under-chassis type with spacers so
the lugs cleared the board for soldering. Back then, nice straight wires
taking right angle bends was a sign of careful construction. My father did
likewise in his day, only his wires weren't insulated and tended to be
around 14 AWG instead of my 18 AWG DCC wire.
Those were the days of real "breadboards".